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Couple’s wedding favors roasted online: ‘Completely pointless’

Forget these memintos.

Members of the private Facebook group That’s it, I’m wedding shaming are reportedly slamming a pair of newlyweds for their “pointless” wedding favors.

The tiny take-home gift under fire is two unwrapped Polo breath mints, which are made in the UK, in a plastic bag with a sticker that reads: “Thanks for celebrating with us.”

“Can I shame everyone who does completely pointless favors please?!” the uploader of the photo breathlessly wrote in the Facebook group, according to The US Sun.

“I don’t want a keyring with your wedding date on it. I don’t want a bottle opener. I definitely don’t want two polos in a pointless plastic bag,” the poster continued. “In fact, I think we should just get rid of favors, we have moved past the need for wedding favors.”

The shade sparked a heated discussion about the need for wedding favors.Dmytro Sheremeta

The post sparked heated discussion, as commenters debated whether wedding favors are a waste of money. The group, which began in 2018, touts 88,000 members.

One member argued that some favors can have practical uses.

“I used little jars of honey from our local beekeeper. I think wedding favors are nice and shows that the couple is thanking you in a tiny way,” someone said, per The Sun.

“I did hand sanitizer since it was a Covid wedding lol, safe to say all were taken,” another boasted.

One wedding-shamer in the group actually offered praise.

“I went to a wedding where the favor was a cutting board and cheese cutter! And they also handed out flats to anyone wearing heels so they could dance during the reception. It was awesome,” they wrote.

Members of the shameful Facebook group stated that wedding favors are nice when they can be used past the wedding. Billion Photos

Another person claimed that couples usually have a lot of leftovers when their wedding favors are “useless items” like plants.

“Like nobody takes plants,” they declared.

“It doesn’t have to be gaudy or expensive, but it also isn’t required at all,” another person weighed in. “It depends on what the couple wants, not what you want. Don’t like it? Don’t take it.”

Meanwhile, a father of the bride hilariously interrupted his daughter’s wedding by bringing a step stool to the altar for the short groom, so that the happy couple could stand eye-to-eye for their first kiss.

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Cheeky father of bride gives groom step stool to kiss taller wife at altar

For better or for worse, in shortness and in help.

The father of a bride stole the show at his daughter’s wedding by bringing her short king and husband-to-be a step stool in an unforgettable moment captured on video.

Amanda, from Hammond, Louisiana, married William Bunns, 33, in an outdoor ceremony that took place on April 16, 2021.

But in a resurfaced clip from the big day, Amanda stands at 6 feet tall — clearly six inches taller than William who is shorter at 5-foot-6.

“One day, weeks prior to the wedding, my dad and I were discussing the wedding and he jokingly said, ‘I hope you don’t plan on wearing heels!’ I just laughed and told him, ‘No,’” Amanda recalled to The Post on Thursday.

“But that was when my dad mentioned bringing out a step stool for William to stand on for the kiss.”

Amanda and her father, Rusty Varnado, 63, decided his time to shine should be right as the minister was about to pronounce the couple husband and wife.

“Hold on, hold on,” Varnado could be heard interjecting during the service as he approaches the altar.

Amanda is 6 inches taller than her husband, William without heels. Rhett Crouch Productions/T&T Creative Media

Both Amanda and William looked shocked and confused before bursting into laughter at the sight of Varnado’s practical joke.

Amanda told The Post she was simply playing along.

“He [Varnado] was so tickled and filled with excitement,” she said. “We laughed about it for weeks before the wedding.”

The couple seemed confused when they heard Amanda’s dad coming towards the altar. Rhett Crouch Productions/T&T Creative Media

William’s groomsmen loved the giggle as they rewarded him with big smiles, hugs, and handshakes before Varnado let the couple seal their love with a kiss.

People on TikTok also applauded the move, claiming that because Varnado roasted William on his special day, that meant he and his father-in-law must have a great relationship.

“That was awesome. That’s how you know you married into a winning family,” one commented.

Her dad provided his son-in-law with a step stool to be at eye-level with Amanda. Rhett Crouch Productions/T&T Creative Media

Another added: “They are gonna have [a] happy life! Humor and love will get them through the toughest days.”

“Kevin Hart is that you,” more than one person joked about William’s resemblance to the also-diminutive, 5-foot-2½ comedian.

“I love the relationship that my father and husband have,” Amanda told The Post. “Not everyone gets to experience that and because my father has always been one of the most important people in my life, I love seeing him have such an amazing and close relationship with now the most important person in my life.”

The groom got an apparently much-needed boost — and everyone had a laugh about it.Rhett Crouch Productions/T&T Creative Media

Amanda Bunns told The Post that she was in on her father’s practical joke. Rhett Crouch Productions/T&T Creative Media

At least Varnado’s joke went over well, unlike that of a woman on Reddit who was deemed “selfish” and “toxic” after “ruining” her friend’s wedding during her maid of honor speech, declaring that the newlywed bride’s relationship had destroyed their friendship.

Another woman was also criticized online for shockingly wearing a white gown to her friend’s big day.

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Rapper flexes bizarre naked muscle suit at Paris fashion week

What a flex.

An abs-olutely daring fashionista is the talk of Paris’ haute couture fashion week for attending the Jean Paul Gaultier x Julien Dossena show Wednesday in a trompe l’oeil suit that made him look nearly naked and very muscular.

The man was identified by social media users as Estonian rapper Tommy Cash, who has also turned heads at fashion shows for get-ups in which he transforms into French actor and mime Marcel Marceau or a seafood-restaurant table, a look finished with a white tablecloth, cutlery and yummy shellfish.

Cash, 31, had the decency to pair Wednesday’s nude ensemble with some high white socks, shiny black dress shoes, a crisp white shirt and a long black tie.

He opted for a slick hairdo and paper thin mustache to complement the fleshy fit.

Tommy Cash turned heads at Paris fashion week with his faux birthday suit.Marijo Cobretti / SplashNews.com

He flexed for the crowd.Marijo Cobretti / SplashNews.com

Cash’s other outrageous looks include a dinner table topped with seafood.ZUMAPRESS.com

Cash isn’t shy when it comes to bold looks.Getty Images

The Post has contacted Gaultier and Cash for comment.

In videos posted online, Cash appears to flaunt what the suit gave him, flexing for photographers, stretching an exercise band, lifting weights and eating scoops of protein powder during the show.

“Hard work and dedication,” he captioned an Instagram video of himself.

The statement piece drew mixed reviews among his 1 million Instagram followers.

“I love the creativity but trying to be the center of attention at someone else’s fashion show is kinda weak,” one commenter opined.

“I don’t think he does this for attention. I find this a beautiful artistic performance and a brilliant satire about society, personally as a fashion student and hopefully a future fashion designer Id love to have him at one of my shows,” another declared.

“Incredible,” the Canadian pop star Grimes wrote.

It’s not the first look at Paris fashion week to have people scratching their heads.

Netherlands design team Viktor&Rolf’s unusual show Wednesday featured models walking the runway with male mannequins — devoid of heads, hands and feet — draped around themselves.

The fall 2023 couture collection, entitled “Embodiment,” is celebrates “30 years of conceptual glamour, spectacular beauty and provocative couture in an unexpected way,” according to the brand. 

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Is Bill de Blasio a catch? NYC single ladies dish on whether they’d date the ‘handsome’ ex-mayor after his unorthodox split

Who wants to date Bill de Blasio?

On Wednesday, the former mayor, 62, announced that he and his wife Chirlane McCray, 68, were splitting after nearly 30 years of marriage, two kids and two terms in City Hall.

In a candid New York Times piece, the pair unpacked their conscious uncoupling, blaming the breakdown of their once-deep connection on his demanding political career and failed 2020 presidential campaign.

Both were excited to jump back into the dating pool — even joking they should include their phone numbers in the piece.

One caveat? They are still living together.

The Post asked the single ladies of the Big Apple, and beyond, if they’d take a chance on Bill — and his new darker hairdo.

Bill de Blasio says he’s not into online dating as he seeks the single scene after 30 years of marriage. So The Post has helped out. He might not need it: We also found plenty of would-be de Blasiacs willing to get hot with the ex-hizzonner.

Who wants to date Bill de Blasio? We found some willing New Yorkers.Getty Images

De Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray and their son Dante attend the Met Gala. The couple announced this week that they are separating, but living under the same roof and not divorcing.Getty Images

And it would seem he won’t be a bill-chelor for long. We found many willing candidates, who were mostly drawn to his proximity to power and the 6-foot-5 Park Slope resident’s towering height.

Tatyana Burika, a 40-something artist living in the Financial District, was enthusiastic about meeting the lifelong public servant with socialist leanings.

“Yes. The fact that he was mayor is enough for me. He must be smart. I am Russian and traditional, so I will adopt to my man’s politics, whatever they are,” she told The Post. “Plus I have a fetish for tall guys and he is handsome.”

Artist Tatyana Burika likes de Blasio’s height. Courtesy of Tatyana Burika

Rapper and former Barstool Sports personality Tiko Texas was even more blunt.

“He got money, he like chocolate, why not,” she told The Post, referring to his three-decade long relationship with McCray, who is black.

Even when she learned de Blasio wasn’t a money-bags mayor like billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Texas still found his Rolodex enticing.

“I’m down to have a drink and see what fun we could get into. Vibe it out. He’s highly connected. Put me in the door,” she said, adding that she was fine with his unorthodox living arrangement.

Rapper Tiko Texas is okay with de Blasio living with his ex.Courtesy of Tiko Texas

“I’m okay with him living with the wife. I think that’s a great arrangement. I’m single and mingling right now. That would be cool. They have their space and I have mine. I wouldn’t want us to live together anyway.”

Bunking with his ex wasn’t a problem for comedian Christy Miller, 52.

“For me no, because I know she’s a lesbian, so I’m totally cool with it … There’s no danger — she might come into my room,” the Hell’s Kitchen resident, who was drawn to de Blasio’s “clout” and pension.

“I got to boost my comedy career. I need to go viral with something. I’m 52 years old, but I don’t look or act it. I power lift for fun. He works out at the Y … He gets a pension right? And them benefits? Okay.”

Comedian Christy Miller wants to hit the gym with de Blasio and maybe raid his pension afterward. Courtesy of Christy Miller

Miller also gives high marks to his new hair, which has been slightly darkened. (de Blasio himself meant it to be lighter but said, “I like feeling what I feel.”)

His resume (mayor, failed presidential run, nixed gubernatorial run, failed congressional run) would even lure Los Angeles producer Shelley Eisner, 59, to the East Coast for a chance to meet him. “It would probably be a fun, interesting date. Do I have any expectations? No — I’d have fun.”

The mother of two grown children can even stomach his current lack of full-time employment and his far-left politics — “I was a Berkeley girl in the late ’80s. We’d protest over a tuition hike of a dollar,” she said — as long as he’d still be able to pick up the check for dinner.

Gloria Velez said de Blasio has a nice demeanor but he’s not single enough for her. Helayne Seidman

The ex-mayor’s living arrangement is, however, a big turn-off for Gloria Velez, who works out at the same Park Slope YMCA as the former pol.

“He’s not my type. I like men who are dedicated to one’s spouse,” the 51-year-old told The Post. “Either you are or you aren’t [with them]. You can’t be a little bit pregnant. I don’t believe in sharing.”

But if he and his wife did divorce, she’d have a change of heart.

De Blasio and his now possibly estranged — they did not address how to describe their status — wife love a good costume. Stefan Jeremiah

Animals lovers might not be so into de Blasio, after he fumbled a groundhog on Staten Island in 2014. It died from injuries consistent with a fall.Staten Island Advance

“I’d give him a chance, I like his height, I like his demeanor. I see him every day [at the gym]. He’s very pleasant with me, he never doesn’t say hello to me. We’re very cordial.” 

Hunter College employee, Malin Abrahamson, 51, said she had “soured” on the de Blasio during his tenure in City Hall, but after nearly a year and a half of current mayor Eric Adams, she would take him back.

As for dating, the 6-foot Abrahamson would “pay attention to him. He’s tall enough for me.”

Bill de Blasio with his wife Chirlane and their kids Dante and Chiara de Blasio. The couple have been married for 30 years.

Potential matches mentioned de Blasio’s gym demeanor. He spoofed his time there in a commercial.

Dorinda, a 71-year-old woman finishing up a workout at de Blasio’s beloved Park Slope Y, told The Post she thinks “he’s a jerk” and found him lacking confidence while in office. But she sees nothing but babes in his future.

“He’ll never be alone. He’s good-looking. He has a penis,” she said. “But he is unemployed.”

Sports publicist Jacqueline Giaccio, 39, gave a full-throttled thumbs down to de Blasio, who stumped for congestion charges.

“As a girl from Queens, we still appreciate a guy that wants to cruise and make out in a muscle car. Congestion pricing and more red light tickets aren’t going to cut it for a mate,” said Giaccio.

Bill de Blasio looks ready for his new chapter as a single man. Getty Images

We found a red flag for one single New Yorker: how can anyone date a man who eats pizza with a fork?ABACAUSA.COM

Another turn off? He eats pizza with a knife and fork.

“Now that was appalling,” she said.

Additional reporting by Beth Landman, Doree Lewak, Micheal Kaplan and Jeanette Settembre.

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Woman, 90, retires from Dillard’s job after 74 years — and no missed days

This was a long overdue retirement.

Melba Mebane, a 90-year-old Texas woman, finally called it quits, retiring from her retail job at Dillard’s department store after working there for an astonishing 74 years.

The devoted employee first started as an elevator girl at the Dillards in Tyler, Texas, in 1949 — when she was 17 — before being promoted to the cosmetics department.

“Even [with] the changing times, from where she started to where we are now in the modern world, her values and everything still stand,” Dillard’s store manager James Saenz told Fox News.

Mebane became a staple in the retail store, always showing up to work with a smile and positively impacting everyone who entered.

Saenz even claimed she never called out sick or missed a day of work.

“Melba sets the tone for everything, every expectation, every customer service quality that we look for in a luxury experience,” her admiring former manager said.

Melba Mebane, 90, retired from Dillard’s after working there for 74 years.Terry Mebane / Instagram

Mebane started working as an elevator girl at the retail store when she was 17 years old.KLTV 7

As she got older, she never strayed away from her routine of being on time for work.

“She’s a grinder,” said Terry Mebane, the retiree’s son. “The store would open at 10 and she wanted her parking spot, so she got there between 9 o’clock and 9:15.”

The nonagenarian often took short lunch breaks “because she knew that people often took off [during] their lunch hour to come to the mall to buy what they were going buy, and she didn’t want to miss her opportunity,” her son revealed.

Even in her 70s and 80s, Mebane continued to work 40 hours a week.

The former Dillard’s employee worked behind the cosmetics counter, where she excelled in sales. KLTV 7

While some of her work colleagues viewed the job as just “a paycheck,” Mebane encouraged them to see it as more.

She found joy in her work, inspiring others and excelling in department sales.

“I loved everybody there, and I loved to go to work,” an overjoyed Mebane told Texas station KLTV7.

“Can you imagine how many people she coached and taught and trained to aspire to be more?” gushed Saenz. 

Mebane was overjoyed to receive a “Beyond Excellence” award for her dedication and long service to the company.KLTV 7

Mebane’s colleagues and manager thought highly of her work ethic. KLTV 7

Unfortunately, she started facing some health issues and had to say goodbye to the place she had worked for seven decades.

However, her dedication to the company did not go unnoticed.

Dillard’s hosted a retirement party where they honored Mebane with a “Beyond Excellence” award, a plaque honoring her “decades of service beyond expectations” inside the Tyler store.

The honor “will remain here for as long as Dillard’s is around,” declared Saenz.

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Peter Molyneux is making a new game but he won’t tell you anything about it

Peter Molyneux is making a new game. The famous game developer retreated from the spotlight after an incredibly hostile interview asked if he was a pathological liar back in 2015, but he has re-emerged and given an interview to GameReactor where he revealed he was working on a new game for consoles and PC. 

“In days gone by, I would just start telling you about the whole game and the whole game design and why it was going to be the most brilliant game in the world,” said Molyneux. “I’m not going to do that.”

Instead, Molyneux pointed at Fable, Black and White and Dungeon Keeper as titles he’d be looking to emulate, saying this new game would offer a similar experience. He also pointed to consoles and PC, saying development would be there because Molyneux’s studio 22 Cans “need the power” for the new title. 

Honestly, it’s tough to know what to expect. Molyneux was huge for much of his career, but when he left Microsoft in 2012 he became somewhat more unreliable, creating tap-’em-up smartphone game Curiosity: What’s in the Cube in 2012, Godus in 2013, which launched into Steam’s Early Access program and is still there a decade later, and 2017’s The Trail: Frontier Challenge, which I’m half convinced is made up as I’ve been writing about video games for around 13 years and can’t remember a single thing about it.

When it comes to Peter Molyneux, I think my feeling is that he’s excessively optimistic and prone to being misinterpreted a new angrier breed of video game fans that was enabled by social media. Regardless of your own thoughts, Molyneux is fascinating, and whatever he’s cooking up we’ll be keeping a close eye on it and letting you know more. 

While you wait for whatever Molyneux is cooking up, there’s Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day  is on the horizon and great  Prime Day gaming deals  are already popping up as we get closer to the main event.

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We may soon be getting that 16GB Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti GPU we’ve dreamed of

Back in May 2023, Nvidia revealed that the 16GB version of the Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti GPU would be coming out sometime in July, but no exact date had been set. However, news leaks may have narrowed down the launch to mid-July.

Two reputable hardware leakers, hongxing2020 and Zed__Wang, report that the 16GB VRAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card will release on July 18. And, from what we do officially know, it will launch at an MSRP of $499 but with no Founders Edition. That’s an increase of $100 over the 8GB version that came out in May.

Of course, we have yet to get the official word from Nvidia confirming this date, so make sure to take it with a pinch of salt.

Will it be worth it? 

The real question is whether the 16GB of VRAM will make that much of a difference in overall performance. On one hand, games are demanding higher specs like superior RAM and storage space, and while 8GB of VRAM is enough for most titles, some of the best PC games are beginning to require more juice than that. 

It would have been nice to have forgone the 8GB version to begin with and simply release this one at a more reasonable price point. At the very least, that would have prevented the supposedly flop sales at many major retailers around the world, even in markets that traditionally are very PC gaming-heavy.

Still, it doesn’t seem like the RTX 4060 Ti has enough performance improvements to justify the higher price point. According to Nvidia, the RTX 4060 Ti has a roughly 160% performance increase over the RTX 2060 Super when frame generation is enabled, but only a 60% increase over the RTX 2060 Super in titles without frame generation. And our own review revealed that the performance improvement over the RTX 3060 Ti in titles without frame generation is only 11% for both 8GB and 16GB versions of the card.

Of course, until we have the card in our hands and thoroughly benchmark it, we won’t how well it’ll perform. Here’s hoping that Nvidia can give us another mid-range card as high-quality as the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card, which apparently features some truly excellent 1080p performance.

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‘Joy Ride’ Director Responds to Critic Claiming the Film “Targets White People”

Joy Ride director Adele Lim is addressing a social media reaction to her Lionsgate film ahead of its theatrical release later this month.

Lim took to Twitter on Tuesday to weigh in about an unfavorable assessment from Jackson Murphy, whose Twitter bio describes himself as a film critic for 99.5 The River, an iHeartRadio station based in Albany, New York. Murphy’s tweet criticized the feature as “embarrassing” and “incredibly unpleasant,” along with adding about the movie: “Objectifies men, targets white people.”

In her response, Lim, who is making her directorial debut following writing credits on such films as Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon, posted, “Imma need ‘Objectifies men, targets white people’ on a tshirt.”

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Joy Ride, which hits theaters July 7, centers on a woman traveling across China to find her birth mother and was written by Lim, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao. The R-rated comedy premiered earlier this year at South by Southwest and stars Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu in the lead roles.

In her film review for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Lovia Gyarkye wrote, “Like the best quartets in film and TV, the four friends form an unlikely crew, but it’s their differences that make their relationships with one another oddly comforting. Joy Ride balances its irreverent humor — a mix of sex jokes and insider-y, affectionate jabs at stereotypes within the Asian diaspora — with poignance.”

During a recent interview with THR, Lim addressed the pressure of having a voice as a member of a historically underrepresented community in Hollywood.

“It’s the first time that we are putting four Asian faces in the middle of an R-rated comedy,” Lim said at the time. “If you fuck up — if a project with a queer lead, a Black lead or an Asian lead fails — the industry’s knee-jerk reaction is to blame it on the otherness. You don’t want that fear to paralyze you and keep you from creating from a place of joy.”

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Woman throws computer monitors, scanners in outburst at airport ticket counter

Things got turbulent — well before takeoff.

A woman was caught on cellphone video going ballistic at a Mexico City International Airport ticket counter when a Volaris airline employee reportedly couldn’t find her flight reservation in the computer system.

María Guadalupe, 56, is being accused of damaging equipment as well as disturbing the peace for allegedly slamming four computer monitors and four handheld barcode scanners to the ground, the Daily Mail reports.

Auxiliary Police agents reportedly placed Guadalupe in custody as she was about to exit the airport.

The Post contacted representatives for Volaris, the airport, and the police for comment.

Guadalupe is accused of destroying equipment at a ticket counter at the Mexico City International Airport.Twitter / @MiguelElBlacky

Cellphone footage captured the equipment damage. Twitter / @MiguelElBlacky

Guadalupe allegedly asked a Volaris worker to refund her for the missing reservation. Since she booked the flight through a travel agency, she was told to contact the agency to see about a refund.

That’s when things got bumpy.

“If you don’t want to, don’t give me the money back. I don’t give a f—k. But that’s going to cost you,” the woman shouted in Spanish at an agent as she stood atop the airline’s baggage scale.

“Don’t give it to me. But you pay for that.”

A nearby employee reportedly escorted Guadalupe away from the ticket counter after the fireworks.

She is facing for charges for breaking four computer monitors and four barcode scanners. Twitter / @MiguelElBlacky

Equipment was pulled off two counters.Twitter / @MiguelElBlacky

The outburst comes after a woman aboard an American Airlines flight caused quite the scene this month when she demanded to get off the plane at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport over a fellow passenger she claimed was “not real.”

And last year, a woman was caught on video throwing a tantrum at a Mexico City airport and even attacking a check-in agent when she didn’t get her way.

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We were Victoria’s Secret models — everything you saw was fake

They’re spilling secrets.

Jasmine Tookes, 32, and Josephine Skriver, 30, graced Victoria’s Secret catalogs for years — but even they could not recognize themselves at times while looking at their own images.

The two models recently opened up on the Real Pod podcast about their experiences as Victoria’s Secret Angels, delving into the reality of the industry and social media’s role in authenticating the fantasy.

When asked if they understood their impact on other women and society in the moment, Skriver replied, “It was a weird time because you realize you were getting a massive amount of eyes looking at you. You understood that with VS.”

“But we got signed right when social media exploded too, so it was this combination of everyone’s gonna know you for this glamorous side, like it takes two and a half hours in hair and makeup, personal trainers, this whole situation. Yet you now have the ability of taking them behind the scenes and showing them the more real you,” she added.

Jasmine Tookes, 32, and Josephine Skriver, 30, recently opened up about their time as Victoria’s Secret Angels on the Real Pod podcast. @realpod/YouTube

Skriver, who hails from Denmark, noted that it felt like people became obsessed with them and every detail of their lives overnight due to social media.

“Like they wanted to know what kind of toothpaste I used and I was like, ‘Really? That just seems boring,’” she recalled.

She said she wanted to show on social media how much time and effort went into maintaining her figure and being a model, even as the public assumed it was all so effortless.

The pair rose to fame as social media became increasingly popular.Getty Images for Victoria’s Secret

Tookes admitted that she still sees Instagram comments “every day” from fans claiming that she’s “always so put together” and “so perfect,” but emphasizes that Instagram is just one version of herself.

“If you saw me waking up in the morning in my house, the middle of the day, walking around with spit up all over me from the baby, no makeup on, that’s my real life,” said Tookes, who gave birth to a daughter in February.

As the conversation continued, Skriver confessed that being fully immersed in the modeling world led her to assume that everyone knew that the images were “all fake,” featuring “a full costume” of body makeup and retouched to the point where the models barely resembled themselves.

Tookes agreed, explaining that people not realizing how edited the photos were “is so crazy because to me it’s so obvious when you look back at our old VS campaigns.”

They shared that social media allowed a peek into the reality of the fantasy of the modeling industry, but still only revealed highlights of their lives. Pascal Le Segretain

Skriver went so far as to say that strangers and those closest to her struggled to recognize her in some photos.

“I would stand next to the big billboards on the street, and I could stand there for 30 minutes and not a single person could put the two people together,” she shared.

“I’m like, ‘I don’t even look like my pictures.’ Sometimes my mom would be like, ‘Is that you? I didn’t even know you could look like this.’”

In recent years, other stars have revealed the realities of being a top model in the early aughts.

Victoria’s Secret, meanwhile, has skipped its annual fashion show beginning in 2019, as viewership and earnings sunk during the #MeToo movement and other cultural reckonings, but recently unveiled plans for a “new version” of the once-popular show.

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